Mid-Ohio brings back Runoffs for 2016

5:58 PM,
Jul. 10, 2013

Tim Cowen of Ashland leads a pack around the track early in the GT1 class race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course en route to an SCCA National Championship Runoffs title a decade ago. The Runoffs which once ran an 12 straight years in Lexington will return to the track in 2016.

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| By Rob McCurdy
News Journal

First, Ohio Lt. Governor Mary Taylor offered a proclamation at the statehouse on the return of NASCAR to the state this summer with the Nationwide Series race debuting in Lexington and the Camping World Truck Series race running at Eldora. Soon after, the Sports Car Club of America announced it awarded the SCCA National Championship Runoffs to Mid-Ohio for 2016.

"It was a good day," track president Craig Rust said. "The proclamation and just the acknowledgment from the statehouse and the lieutenant governor and the ...